The Effect of Increasing Farmers'Income on the Integration of Urban and Rural Transportation
Promoting integrated urban-rural development is an important mean to promote rural residents'income and achieve rural revitalization and common prosperity.This paper investigates the impact of integrated urban-rural transportation development on rural residents'income based on a panel data across China at the county level from 2010 to 2020,and examines its impact mechanism through the effect of being selected as urban-rural transportation integration demonstration counties in 2017,using the Difference-in-Differences method.We find that:the urban-rural transportation integration demonstration counties significantly promote rural residents'income,resulting in a 5.65％increase in rural residents'income.Agricultural labor migration,introduction of production technology to the countryside,agricultural labor productivity improvement,and county consumption market expansion are important mechanisms for urban-rural transportation integration to promote rural residents'income increase.Through heterogeneity analysis,we find that urban-rural transportation integration's promoting effect on rural residents'income enhances with the increase of the average education level and the proportion of working-age population in the county,but higher population dependency burden and illiteracy rate weaken this income promoting effect.Further analysis shows that the income promoting effect of urban-rural transportation integration on urban residents also exists,and it widens at first and then narrows the urban-rural income gap as the integration develops.In addition,the short-term impact of urban-rural transportation integration is mainly on rural residents'income,and its spatial spillover effect is insignificant.This paper takes transportation infrastructure and rual residents'income as examples to provide strong empirical evidence on how urban-rural integration development can promote rural revitalization.
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维普
